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LSEG today added Amazon Quick to the growing list of AI-enabled workspaces in which its licensed data and analytics are exposed via a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, with customers gaining access through natural-language and agentic queries to pricing, fundamentals, estimates, ownership data, macroeconomic indicators, ESG and analytical models. The move is the latest step...
Date: 13 May 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Surveillance in capital markets has evolved in silos. Trade surveillance, voice recording, and electronic communications monitoring have traditionally operated as parallel control functions, each with distinct datasets, workflows and alerting logic. Yet recent enforcement actions on both sides of…
A-Team Group, organisers of the TradingTech Summits, are pleased to announce the inaugural ExchangeTech Summit London on May 14th 2026. This dedicated forum brings together operators of exchanges, alternative execution venues and digital asset platforms with the ecosystem of vendors driving the future of matching engines, surveillance and market access.
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a unique and practical guide to capital markets regulation, regulatory change, and the data and data management requirements of compliance across Europe, the UK, US and Asia-Pacific. This year’s edition lands at a moment of accelerating regulatory divergence and intensifying data focused supervision. Inside,…
US regulators may be stepping back from the penalty-led off-channel communications sweeps that defined recent enforcement cycles, but that does not mean firms can ease up on surveillance or record-keeping controls. The shift under new leadership at the SEC and CFTC should be reviewed as a change in enforcement emphasis: fewer technical cases pursued in...
LSEG today added Amazon Quick to the growing list of AI-enabled workspaces in which its licensed data and analytics are exposed via a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, with customers gaining access through natural-language and agentic queries to pricing, fundamentals, estimates, ownership data, macroeconomic indicators, ESG and analytical models. The move is the latest step...
By Ian Salmon, Head of Product Marketing, Adaptive. Prediction markets have moved from the edges of the financial ecosystem into a space that increasingly resembles regulated market infrastructure. What began as a retail phenomenon around political events and sports outcomes has evolved into a sector attracting institutional capital, established exchanges and serious regulatory attention. The...
Demand for private market data is expected to continue rising as the growing popularity of the asset classes accelerates, putting pressure on feed prices. With no end in sight to market volatility and artificial intelligence enabling the sourcing of ever-larger volumes of critical financial and operational information, financial institutions are likely to increase their data...
The buy-side trading desk of the future is asset-agnostic and AI-augmented. The defining characteristic is an architecture where clean, joined-up workflows across all products allow an agentic overlay to function reliably. For investment firms, the priority is to establish these common foundational layers now; firms that remain trapped in siloed, asset-specific stacks will find that...
While 2025 saw its challenges, the year ended on a high for securities litigation in the US marketplace, raising the prospect of an expanded rebound in 2026. The latter part of the year saw four settlements that exceeded $200million in value in addition to a single, significant settlement reaching $740million, providing a late-year boost to...
The proliferation of electronic communications channels available to financial professionals and their clients has created a headache for compliance teams charged with mitigating against market abuse, insider trading and other illegal activities. In an era of heighted regulatory scrutiny, compliance teams are finding it challenging to put in place the appropriate systems and processes, particularly...
FactSet has created an integrated valuation workflow for private capital markets in collaboration with valuation technology provider Valutico. The tie-up connects portfolio data, valuation modelling and reporting into a single system to replace manual spreadsheet tasks. Financial data from Cobalt, FactSet’s monitoring tool, flows into the Valutico platform where analysts can apply income, market and…
Regnology has completed its acquisition of Moody’s Regulatory Reporting & Asset and Liability Management Solutions business, adding another major transaction to a strategy that is taking the firm deeper into the intersection of regulatory reporting, risk, finance and balance-sheet management. The deal adds Moody’s capabilities across Basel III compliance, IFRS 9 impairment, large-bank asset and…
SAP has acquired data lakehouse platform Dremio, enabling the enterprise applications provider to integrate its own and third-party data in its SAP Business Data Cloud and to support analytical and agentic artificial intelligence workloads.The deal, which remains subject to regulatory approval, would help eliminate bottlenecks to take customers from fragmented data to governed intelligence on…
LTX, the AI-driven corporate bond e-trading platform backed by Broadridge Financial Solutions, has announced that Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, TD Securities, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America have joined as fully integrated liquidity providers. This expansion strengthens the platform’s capacity to provide investment-grade and high-yield bond liquidity to its growing network of over 40 providers…
Jito Labs, the team behind JitoSOL and the Jito Block Engine, has announced the launch of JTX, a self-custodial trading platform designed for the Solana network. Unveiled by CEO Lucas Bruder at Solana Accelerate in Miami, JTX aims to provide professional-grade execution and order types on-chain. The platform allows users to maintain full custody of…
ISI, a global provider of market intelligence, has launched a new platform designed for investors, bankers, and advisers focusing on emerging market corporates. Powered by REDD intelligence and the proprietary AI tool AskISI, the platform covers public bonds, private credit, and primary debt issuance. It aims to provide transparency in opaque markets by surfacing credit…
TS Imagine has announced the integration of OpenYield, an SEC-registered alternative trading system (ATS), into its TradeSmart platform. This partnership provides TradeSmart users with direct access to OpenYield’s all-to-all marketplace, facilitating automated liquidity for municipal, corporate, and government bonds. The move addresses the increasing demand for transparency and “equity-like” efficiency in fixed income markets, particularly…
Gresham has integrated FundGuard’s multi-book investment accounting capabilities with its enterprise data management solutions. This inclusion enables institutional investors and fund administrators to access a single source of data across public and private asset classes. Investment accounting systems provide the infrastructure for asset managers to track portfolios, calculate net asset values, and maintain regulatory compliance….
Qomply has launched QomplyAI, a new capability designed to make its regulatory intelligence available through AI assistants including ChatGPT, Claude and other Model Context Protocol-compatible clients. QomplyAI is intended to let reporting, compliance and oversight teams ask regulatory questions in natural language and receive structured answers that can support workflow decisions. Example use cases include…
Wealth management financial technology specialist BridgeWise has collaborated with X to integrate data from the social media platform into its intelligence engine to provide social sentiment analysis for thousands of securities. The system utilises an API-driven connector and a proprietary framework to convert unstructured data into structured signals for financial institutions. The resultant SentimentWise is…
Fitch Solutions has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector, Fitch Nexus, that enables clients to access Fitch Ratings content through internal AI applications and large language models. The connector provides credit research, historical ratings data and financial forecasts through a single integration. “Fitch Nexus is designed to deliver faster, more actionable insights with greater…
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has announced a significant expansion of its TT FX platform, broadening its product coverage for institutional foreign exchange and precious metals traders. While previously focused on spot FX, the platform now supports forwards, NDFs, and swaps. This update integrates liquidity from a wider range of bank and non-bank providers, supplementing…
The Swiss financial infrastructure provider, SIX, has secured approval from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) to merge its digital central securities depository, SIX Digital Exchange AG, into SIX SIS AG. This strategic consolidation integrates digital and traditional asset services into a single legal entity, establishing a unified foundation for post-trade services across diverse…
TRG Screen has introduced Contracts AI, a new feature within its Optimize Spend platform designed to streamline the management of market data contracts. This AI-powered tool enables financial institutions to automatically extract and interpret complex usage rights, restrictions, and obligations from legal documents. By converting static contracts into structured, operational data, firms can now ingest…
Comply has announced general availability in May 2026 for its ComplyAI MCP Server, an enterprise-grade Model Context Protocol server designed to connect the firm’s compliance intelligence with major AI platforms used by financial services teams. The server is intended to let authorised compliance, advisor and operations users build custom AI agents in tools such as…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued the State of Wisconsin after the state brought civil actions against Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, Robinhood and Coinbase over prediction market activity. The action, filed on 28 April 2026, extends a widening federal-state dispute over the regulatory treatment of event contracts. The CFTC argues that Congress gave the…
FIS is working with Anthropic to bring agentic AI into banking operations, starting with a Financial Crimes AI Agent designed to support anti-money laundering investigations. The agent is intended to assemble evidence from bank systems, evaluate activity against known typologies and surface higher-risk cases for investigator review, with BMO and Amalgamated Bank among the first…
Eventus has appointed Cameron Routh as chief executive officer, placing a financial technology executive with more than two decades of experience in software and data businesses at the head of the trade surveillance and financial risk technology provider. Routh succeeds founder Travis Schwab, who has led Eventus for 11 years and overseen the development of…
Eventus, a global provider of trade surveillance and financial risk solutions, has announced the appointment of Cameron Routh as its new Chief Executive Officer. The transition follows a majority investment in the company by Terminus Capital Partners (TCP), a private equity firm specialising in B2B AI and software. Routh succeeds founder Travis Schwab, who led…
Zema Global, the data and analytics provider for the energy, commodities, and financial sectors, has announced three senior executive appointments to its leadership team. Tina Morris joins as Chief Operating Officer to oversee operational excellence and the integration of AI-driven efficiencies. Frederick Winston has been appointed Chief Financial Officer to manage strategic scaling, while Javed…
Xceptor has appointed former Pershing and Vanguard leader Sareena Dalla Brookshire to the newly created position of chief product officer to help the capital markets data automation specialist advance its artificial intelligence product programme. Dalla Brookshire, who has almost two decades of experience working in capital markets, is based in New York and will focus…
SOLVE, a provider of pre-trade data and predictive pricing for fixed income markets, has promoted Michael Pellerito to the role of Senior Vice President of Innovation. This appointment underscores the company’s commitment to integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning (AIML) into its product roadmap. Pellerito is tasked with accelerating the development of AI-driven capabilities to…
BMLL, the independent provider of historical market data and analytics, has announced a series of strategic senior appointments across its commercial and technical departments. These hires follow the company’s acquisition by Nordic Capital in October 2025 and are intended to scale global operations and accelerate expansion across equities, ETFs, and futures markets. The leadership team…
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has announced a leadership restructure with the appointment of a new Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Nick Garrow, previously the firm’s CRO, has moved into the newly created role of CSO. In this capacity, Garrow is responsible for driving sustainable growth across existing business lines and…
SimCorp has appointed Neslihan Yegul as Senior Managing Director for the UK and Northern Europe. Based in London, Yegul will report to Chief Revenue Officer Oliver Johnson, effective 20 April. Her primary focus will be supporting the company’s expanding client pipeline and deepening existing relationships within these key regions, which have seen significant growth since…
Moody’s Corporation has announced that Christina Kosmowski will take over as Chief Executive Officer of Moody’s Analytics in June. Kosmowski joins the firm with nearly 30 years of experience in the enterprise technology sector, having previously held senior leadership positions at several major global firms. Her expertise lies in scaling high-growth businesses and implementing customer…
ClearToken, the digital financial market infrastructure provider, has appointed Fernando Cerezetti as Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of its subsidiary ClearToken CCP Limited. The subsidiary is currently in the process of applying to the Bank of England to become an authorised Central Counterparty (CCP). Cerezetti will lead the development and oversight of the CCP’s risk management…
BPX, the UK FCA-authorised institutional venue for alternative assets, has appointed Charles McManus as an Advisor. McManus, the co-founder and former CEO of ClearBank, joins the firm to provide strategic guidance on scaling regulated financial infrastructure. His arrival coincides with a broader structural shift in global finance toward tokenised and decentralised models driven by blockchain…
BMLL, provider of harmonised historical data and analytics, has appointed Kevin Barrett as Senior Sales Director for Listed Derivatives. Based in the US, Barrett is tasked with driving the company’s expansion within the listed derivatives sector. This move follows a period of significant corporate development for the firm, including its recent acquisition by Nordic Capital…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed four senior financial services executives to its Board of Directors, reinforcing governance oversight across market infrastructure, risk, and post-trade operations. The new appointees – Roland Chai (Nasdaq), Massimiliano Ciardi (Citadel), Stephen Hood (Marex), and Georges Lauchard (Barclays) – bring experience spanning exchange operations, treasury and funding,…
We are thrilled to unveil the winners of the 2026 A-Team Innovation Awards. These awards celebrate successful projects within financial institutions (both with vendor support and without) across the financial enterprise.
Voting in the 6th annual RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 is now closed. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.
Voting in the 8th annual TradingTech Insight Awards USA is now closed. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.
